Ten years ago this month, the world met Walter White, the chemistry teacher with a terminal cancer diagnosis whose meteoric rise in the drug trade and precipitous fall from grace were traced in one of the defining TV dramas of its era. It’s Breaking Bad’s 10th anniversary, which also means that creator Vince Gilligan…

It’s easy to forget that when Breaking Bad premiered 10 years ago, it was just another TV show. Not a groundbreaking piece of entertainment, not a universally acclaimed series almost certain to be remembered as one of the finest shows ever made, but an odd-looking little story about Bryan Cranston selling drugs. The…

Esquire has published an oral history of the meth-fueled action drama Breaking Bad for the show’s 10th anniversary and, yes, Aaron Paul is on hand to discuss what it’s like to get called “bitch” everyday. “I have been called ‘bitch’ more than anyone on the planet,” he says, “and that is very exciting.”

In the three years since Breaking Badended, there’s been a prequel spin-off, as well as multiple film and TV projects for its leads. But neither time nor The Path has cooled fans’ ardor for more of Walter White and Jesse Pinkman. People are even slapping the AMC logo onto Photoshopped posters of a supposed sequel…

Despite the ardency of its fans, Breaking Bad wasn’t a cult show—it ended up being far too big a hit for that. But for their next project, executive producers Vince Gilligan and Michelle MacLaren will once again be toying with that label, as Variety reports they’re developing a miniseries about Jonestown for HBO. The…

This installment of Polite Fight tackles “Rebecca,” which might be Better Call Saul’s best episode so far. Kim Wexler steals the episode, and most of Gus and John’s discussion focuses on her, with an in-depth look at her show-stopping montage and the meaning we drew from the (literal) signs we saw in the sequence’s…

Television spinoffs are born holding an awkward pose, caught between embracing nostalgia and declaring independence. The stakes were even higher for AMC’s Better Call Saul, which carried with it the blessing and the curse of spiritually succeeding Breaking Bad, among the most ballyhooed television dramas of the past…

Breaking Bad’s pilot was originally set to take place in Riverside, California. The area is known for having a nasty meth problem, so it seemed like a perfect fit. Even so, executives at Sony’s television production studio felt that New Mexico would be a better location. Not so much for artistic reasons, but because…

Even if the pair’s definition of the word “myth” has drifted a bit over the course of a dozen years on the air, MythBusters’ Jamie Hyneman and Adam Savage haven’t lost their sense of spectacle. Although the Discovery Channel show now centers less on urban legends or rumors, and more on replicating things that happened…

Vince Gilligan wants Walter White to appear on Better Call Saul, really he does. He’s just not saying when. The showrunner recently alluded to his plans to bring back his kingpin creation in an interview with the New York Daily News, but didn’t give away much.

Aaron Paul crushed the dreams of the Internet and AMC executives alike by briefly teasing a Jesse Pinkman-centric spinoff of Breaking Bad in a Periscope livestream, only to reveal just moments later that it was all a joke. The 12-minute video is laggy to the point of being practically indecipherable, but Paul can at…

Since the final season of Breaking Bad, fans have let their imaginations run wild as to the fate of Saul Goodman’s bodyguard Huell, as this is one of the few questions the show didn’t answer with a bullet. To recap—and ruin for those who still haven’t watched the series, yet are still clicking on this article for some…

Essentially, Breaking Bad is about a guy who sets off to help his family, but gets distracted and decides to help himself instead. It seems appropriate, then, that Breaking Bad creator Vince Gilligan is now developing a Jack And The Beanstalk movie for Disney. After all, Jack And The Beanstalk is practically the same…

Vince Gilligan is hosting a nostalgic night of television this April on MeTV, Weigel Broadcasting Company’s all-classic TV network. “Vince Gilligan’s Island of MeTV” will feature a curated selection of Gilligan’s favorite shows from the channel’s archives, including episodes of The Twilight Zone, The Honeymooners, Taxi…

Hey, remember that episode of Breaking Bad where Walt tried to make a peace offering to Skyler by bringing a pizza over to the house, only to throw it up on the roof in frustration after Skyler turns him away? And then he goes on a bender and ends up calling Skyler and berating her over the answering machine? That was…

On Monday night, one of this year’s most anticipated TV dramas used a minute and 26 seconds of airtime to show an elderly figurine collector descending a staircase and sitting on her couch. It was slow. It was dull. It was beige. It was also the purest expression yet of Better Call Saul’s dedication to patient…